Sunday, September 18, 2011
By Elise Franco
efranco@vindy.com
Youngstown
David Higgs played new life into Stambaugh Auditorium’s historic pipe organ during Sunday’s rededication concert with the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra.
Higgs’ performance Sunday afternoon marked the official return of the pipe organ, which underwent a two-year, $1.5 million restoration after it was damaged by leaky pipes in the 1940s.
Higgs, of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., said the repaired organ has returned to its former greatness.
“This hall, and this organ are absolutely first class for anywhere in the world,” he said. Hundreds attended the concert today at the classic Fifth Avenue auditorium.
Read the full story with photos and video Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.